Katy Charles

LONDON – VivaKi has seen 150 percent growth year after year, says Kurt Unkel, president of products and solutions for VivaKi. Beet.TV spoke with Unkel in this video interview in London. The Chicago-based digital advertising solutions company is active across four channels: display, video, social and mobile. “The idea that I want to find an audience one time, […]

LONDON – Consumers expect more advertising than is currently being shown across four major devices: mobile, tablet, PC and television, says Tom Bowman, VP of Strategy and Sales Operations for BBC Worldwide. This information comes from a survey conducted by the BBC at the end of 2012 of 3600 people across 9 countries. To qualify, participants […]

LONDON – The Financial Times is using video to increase its profile, says Josh de la Mare, global editor for Financial Times Video. Beet.TV spoke with him in this video interview at the Financial Times headquarters. FT Video is beginning to use journalists who have typically focused on writing, but have some video experience, to […]

LONDON – Addressable advertising enables GroupM media agency Mindshare, to use their clients’ budgets in the most efficient way, says Norm Johnston, global digital leader for Mindshare Worldwide, in this video interview with Beet.TV Johnston says addressable advertising is improving with tools provided by GroupM’s Xaxis. “Now, that’s coming to TV. It’s coming to other media, as well, […]

LONDON – As digital video expands tremendously, it will continue to grow VivaKi‘s business, says Frank Voris, CEO of VivaKi. “We’re focusing on incubating new opportunities for the group, whether it’s monetizing partnerships, creating new product, and developing new business models to take us into the future and deliver the growth that Maurice [Levy, CEO […]

LONDON – Recently, there’s been immense growth in the programatic video buying space, says Marco Bertozzi, managing director of Europe, Middle East and Asia for Vivaki. Beet.TV spoke with Bertozzi in this video interview at the Publcis Investor Day in London. The Chicago-based digital advertising solutions company, has expanded into France and Spain. Currently, VivaKi is using all cookie-based data used […]

CANNES – Companies that are constantly innovating and utilizing data, like Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook, are in a powerful position, says Chris Thompson, founder and director of Gray Digital Limited. Beet.TV spoke with him in this video interview at MIPTV. “The reason why mobile is really flying is because of the data that sits […]

LAS VEGAS – Livestream‘s mission is to connect people and live events, says Sam Kimball, EVP of advertising and brand sales for Livestream which attracts more than 30 million viewers a month. Beet.TV spoke with him in this video interview at NAB. “We have a very sophisticated and global leading platform for streaming live,” Kimball […]

CANNES – After Adobe took away the support for Flash on Android, many publishers have faced the challenge of how to play video on Android devices, says Neil Berry, VP of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Ooyala. Ooyala’s answer to this problem is Hook, a capability that can playback and monetize mobile video on Android devices. Hook […]

CANNES – Mohanad Yaqubi, a filmmaker with Idioms Film based in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, says he is trying to train young generations to use new technology like Canon 5D cameras and Final Cut Pro. Yaqubi says he tries to present stories that are different from those on the news. “We think we have a different story […]

CANNES – Stevie is using social media to create a TV experience. Pulling content from Facebook, Twitter and online video, Stevie creates television about the user and his or her friends. Users log in to Facebook and Stevie pulls relevant information from social media feeds and turns it into a lineup of shows. Beet.TV spoke […]

CANNES – Portal Entertainment, a UK-based digital entertainment company  focused on creating immersive content , launched Thrill Me, a discovery service for finding horror, thriller, mystery and suspense content based on users’ facial expressions, this year at MIPTV. Beet.TV spoke with Julian McCrea, CEO and founder of Portal Entertainment in this video interview. In the […]

CANNES – Zolmo, an entertainment company that focuses on emerging media and devices, has paired with Jamie Oliver to create a recipe-based app and with Canadian athlete Georges St-Pierre to create a fitness app. Beet.TV spoke with Ian Wharton, creative director of Zolmo, in this video interview at MIPTV. “We are absolutely just a mobile company,” […]

LAS VEGAS – Brightcove, a global provider of cloud content services, is trying to remove some of the complexity inherent in providing content to the breadth of devices available today, says Chris Johnston, VP of Digital Media at Brightcove, in an interview with Beet.TV “Seven years ago, the question was, ‘How do I get video […]

LAS VEGAS – KIT digital, a leading video software and services company, debuted 2Si, a suite of products for second screen, at NAB 2013. Beet.TV spoke with Alan Wolk, global lead analyst for KIT digital, in this video interview about the new app. At NAB, KIT digital showcased their social program guide which developed from […]

With a global television network operation in place, Bloomberg News is using video clips from its  shows as well as Web-only videos to produce some 200 clips per day,  signaling a new “digital first” approach, says Chris Berend, executive producer and head of digital video at Bloomberg, in a video interview at Bloomberg headquarters with Beet.TV […]

LAS VEGAS – MPEG-DASH, an adaptive bitrate streaming technology that enables high-quality streaming via the Internet, received support from industry leaders such as Adobe, Microsoft and Qualcomm  at the DASH Industry Forum at NAB 2013. There, Beet.TV spoke with seven industry leaders for their take on what MPEG-DASH is doing for the industry and why […]

LAS VEGAS – The big news at NAB is about HEVC, a new compression format and successor to H.264, says Rovi’s Thomas Kramer, VP of product management, in an interview with Beet. TV at NAB. This new video compression standard will improve the online video streaming by providing a better experience with the same internet […]

CANNES – Magine promises TV delivery without cable, over the Internet. The Stockholm-based company gives subscribers access to cloud-based TV service. Beet.TV interviewed Michael Werner, chairman of Magine, at MIPTV. “We have developed Magine into a fully-integrated TV service,” Werner says. “We’re meaning to replace your cable network.” With Magine, watching television becomes a dynamic […]

CANNES – Gruvi aims to develop tools that drive sales of entertainment content through social media, says Ben Johnson, founder of the social technology agency in this interview with Beet.TV. Today the Copenhagen-based company is working internationally with Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. along with smaller production companies throughout Europe to create more fiscally effective […]